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What Matters Most On Thursday, September 17, 2015

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Jerusalem Mayor Nir Barkat seen on top of the Tower of David Museum, on April 14, 2015. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Interview

Jerusalem mayor: Israel too ‘merciful’ to Palestinian rioters

By Judah Ari Gross

Nir Barkat declares ‘war’ against stone throwers and firebombers in the capital, says police should use more live ammunition

In one Jerusalem neighborhood, firebombs are a fact of life

By Judah Ari Gross

Likud youth set to visit Temple Mount

By Tamar Pileggi

Eminent Palestinian sheikh asserts right to ‘self-defense’ on Temple Mount

By Elhanan Miller

Republican presidential candidates, former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, right, and Donald Trump both speak during the CNN Republican presidential debate at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library and Museum on Wednesday, Sept. 16, 2015, in Simi Valley, Calif. (AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill)

GOP candidates united in disdain for Obama, support for Israel

By Rebecca Shimoni Stoil

In second Republican debate, Donald Trump takes on Jeb Bush over the war in Iraq, says he’ll ‘get along’ with Russia’s Putin

GOP pundit attacks candidates for pandering to ‘f—ing Jews’

By Raoul Wootliff

Obama, Netanyahu to meet November 9, White House confirms

By AP and ToI Staff

Shared values?On Rosh Hashanah, Sanders courts evangelicals

By Gabe Friedman

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Minister of Public Security Gilad Erdan and Jerusalem mayor Nir Barkat tour Jerusalem following the recent clashes in Jerusalem's Old City, on September 16, 2015. (Amos Ben Gershom/GPO)

Live updates (closed)

Palestinians inciting Temple Mount violence, Netanyahu tells UN’s Ban

UN watchdog rejects oversight of Israel’s nuclear program; third Republican attempt to sink Iran deal fails in Senate

Chloe Coscarelli, a winner of “Cupcake Wars,” has opened a hip vegan eatery in Manhattan. (Mikey Pozarik/Paperwhite Studio / JTA)

The young Jewish chef who made vegan food tasty — long before Beyonce made it cool

By Lucy Cohen Blatter

‘Cupcake Wars’ TV star Chloe Coscarelli now winning over diners in Greenwich Village, with a menu that includes kosher ‘bacon’

Thane Rosenbaum

On Auschwitz showers and normalcy

Against the rigid sanctimony of those who would suppress even accidental reminders of the Holocaust

Lynette Nusbacher

Russia rules Syria OK

On why the only thing worse than Moscow propping up Bashar Assad’s regime is just about any other option

Andrew Silow-Carroll

The ‘Jewish divide’: Who cares?

If you’re not willing to put your time or money where your mouth is, don’t be shocked when no one listens to you

A view of Reykjavik, Iceland's capital. (CC BY-SA 3.0 Andreas Tille/Wikipedia)

Iceland’s capital declares boycott of all Israeli goods

By Ilan Ben Zion

Israel’s Foreign Ministry rails at Reykjavik’s ‘volcano of hatred’; city council says move an act of solidarity with Palestinians

Niamh Bushnell (Courtesy)

Dublin’s start-up chief: ‘Boycotts not on our radar’

By David Shamah

A Hamas-run TV station in Gaza interviews two young boys aspiring to wage Jihad against Israel and 'blow up the Jews.' (screen grab: YouTube)

Gaza kids say they aspire to ‘blow up the Jews’

WATCH: Hamas-run TV station interviews two young boys who want to wage jihad against Israel when they grow up

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas chairs a meeting of the executive committee of the Palestine Liberation Organization in the West Bank city of Ramallah, August 22, 2015. (AFP/Majdi Mohammed/Pool)

Abbas: Blood of ‘martyrs’ spilled on Temple Mount is ‘pure’

By Ilan Ben Zion and ToI Staff

PA president praises rioters, says Jews have ‘no right to desecrate the mosque with their dirty feet’

Friends and family attend the funeral of 64-year-old Alexander Levlovitz on September 16, 2015. (Hadas Parush/FLASH90)

Hundreds attend funeral of Jerusalem rock attack victim

Alexander Levlovitz, 64, lost control of his car after it was pelted with stones late Sunday night

Chief Ashkenazi Rabbi David Lau (L) and Sephardi Chief Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef attend a meeting of the Rabbinate Council in Jerusalem on November 4, 2013. (photo credit: Flash90)

Rabbinate: Boycott ‘dangerous’ pro-Israel Christian event

By Tamar Pileggi

Chief rabbis say annual conference organized by the International Christian Embassy Jerusalem undermines Jewish faith

From left, Ernest Moniz, John Kerry, Mohammad Javad Zarif and Ali Akhbar Salehi meeting in Switzerland in March 2015 (US State Department)

Iran: Russia to help us improve our centrifuges

Tehran’s nuclear chief says Moscow will enable ‘enhanced’ uranium enrichment, as part of July’s nuclear deal

Russian President Vladimir Putin (right) and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (left) hold a joint press conference after their meeting at the Kremlin in Moscow, November 20, 2013. (Kobi Gideon/GPO/Flash90)

Israel troubled by potential conflict with Russian forces in Syria

By Stuart Winer

During trip to Moscow, Netanyahu set to quiz Putin over military assistance to Assad that could threaten IDF operations

Hungarian police spray water on migrants at the 'Horgos 2' border crossing into Hungary, near Horgos, Serbia, Wednesday, September 16, 2015. (AP Photo/Darko Vojinovic)

Hungarian police fire tear gas at migrants on border

By AP

Dozens injured in clashes after refugees break through Serbia fence; plastic bottles, rocks hurled at riot police at sealed crossing

Don Francisco — born Mario Luis Kreutzberger Blumenfeld — in front of a live audience on his record-making show, “Sabado Gigante,” in the 1990s. (Courtesy of Univision/JTA)

The Jewish don of Latin American TV says ‘adios’ after 53 years

By JULIAN VOLOG

Members vote at Ofek's annual meeting, September 2014 (Photo credit: Facebook)

The scrappy co-op that’s banking on breaking the monopoly

By Simona Weinglass

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Brad Pitt at the 86th Academy Awards in Los Angeles on March 2, 2014. (Joe Seer/Shutterstock / JTA)

Two wheels BradBrad Pitt buys Nazi motorbike for $400K

By Gabe Friedman

Chelsea on the attack against Maccabi Tel Aviv at Stamford Bridge, London, in the European Champions League, September 16, 2015 (Channel 2 screenshot)

Chelsea trounces Maccabi Tel Aviv, 4-0

By AP and ToI Staff

Illustrative photo of an ultra-Orthodox Jewish man participating in a kapparot ritual, in which a chicken is swung over one's head in the belief that one transfers the sins from the past year into the chicken. (Dima Vazinovich/Flash90)

Court okays Yom Kippur chickens ritual in New York

By JTA

Hola screenshot (Screen capture)

Hola regains investor trust – and takes in $17 million

By David Shamah

Women participating in #TheHabibatiTag campaign to promote Arab beauty (Screen capture via Twitter/ @BeautyArabian)

Selfie-esteemTwitter campaign tells Arabs to embrace their beauty

By Josefin Dolsten

In this June 2, 2014 photo, an Iranian woman holds an Iranian flag during a ceremony in Tehran for the national soccer team. (AP/Ebrahim Noroozi)

Husband of Iran women’s soccer captain bars her from game

By Jon Gambrell

File: Border Police officers at the Qalandiya checkpoint near the West Bank city of Ramallah, June 30, 2015. (STR/Flash90)

Hebrew media reviewIsraeli sniper

By Joshua Davidovich

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